The Downside Ghosts Series Books 1-3: Unholy Ghosts, Unholy Magic, City of Ghosts
Enter a world of danger, ghosts and magic in the fantastic Downside Ghosts series.
With characters as compelling as 50 Shades of Grey, Downside Ghosts will not disappoint.
The first three books in the Downside Ghosts series are now available in this ebook bundle.
The world is not as it once was. The dead have risen and constantly attack the living. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Consequently, there are many false claims of hauntings from those hoping to profit.
Chess Putnam, witch and drug addict, investigates these claims as a debunker for the Church. However, Chess owes a murderous drug lord named Bump a lot of money. And Bump wants immediate payback. All Chess has to do is dispatch a very nasty species of undead from an old airport. But the job involves black magic, human sacrifice, a nefarious demonic creature, and crossing swords with enough wicked energy to wipe out a city of souls. Toss in lust with a rival gang leader and a dangerous attraction to Bump's ruthless enforcer, and Chess begins to wonder if the rush is really worth it…
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The Downside Ghosts
Books One – Three
Stacia Kane
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © Stacia Kane 2012
Unholy Ghosts © Stacia Kane 2010
Unholy Magic © Stacia Kane 2010
City of Ghosts © Stacia Kane 2010
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Table of Contents
Dark urban fantasy.
I find those words so exciting. Because urban fantasy can be anything, really; you can do anything with it. You can write about a drug-addicted witch who works for an atheistic totalitarian magic-based “Church” who runs the world after a ghost apocalypse. You can write about a punk-rock ghetto run by drug lords, where the aforementioned apocalypse means basics like electricity are hard to come by. You can write about ghosts walking the earth, using weapons, killing people. You can write about those same ghosts captured and forced to “live” in a vast underground cavern from which escape is almost impossible.
And you can play with that. You can think of what sort of world blossoms around such basic information, about revolutionary groups and legal vs. illegal magic and the mix of tech and magic, and what knowing exactly what happens when you die does to humanity at large. You can explore how the basic characteristics of humanity, both the good and the bad, might be heightened or suppressed by such a world, and in what ways they might stay the same.
But it’s not just fantasy worlds and the greater issues of humanity. It’s individual people. One of the things that appeals to me so much about dark urban fantasy – that has appealed to me ever since I read NEVERWHERE fifteen years ago (I know there’s some debate over this, but as far as I’m concerned NEVERWHERE is indeed urban fantasy) – is the lack of rules. It may not be a new genre, but it’s a genre still finding its classifications and tropes, which means there’s plenty of room for experimentation. You can do so much with it. You can write very unconventional heroes and heroines, you can write very dark worlds, you can explore just about anything.
